Jima <jima at gimp.damnation.net> writes: > David S. Cargo wrote: > > > Are there some NICs that work better than others? I have 3Com > > 3c509b cards and have had no luck getting two of them working on > > the same system. I've got a Pentium 75 system (surplus from > > Material Processing for which I paid $50) that I want to use > > for my firewall box, but I have been putting off wrestling with > > the issue until I get a DSL line (maybe sometime this month). > > > > dsc > > Actually, the 3c509 works *great*...if you can get it set up right. If > you go to 3com's web site and download the driver disks (actually you only > really need disk #2), extract 3c5x9cfg.exe, put it on a DOS bootable > floppy (ugh, but it works) and boot onto it, you can change the > configuration on one of the cards so that they aren't using the same I/O > address & interrupt. I've got a pair of these in my firewall, and they > work great. This is so strange. I've dropped 3c509 cards surplus from dead work into two boxes, and they auto-configured and were recognized and work fine, without any of this horsing around. Am I just very lucky, or what? -- David Dyer-Bennet / Welcome to the future! / dd-b at dd-b.net SF: http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/ Minicon: http://www.mnstf.org/minicon/ Photos: http://dd-b.lighthunters.net/